HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1571

if such candidate resides in said city, the statement herein-
after provided.

Every candidate for public office shall within thirty days
after the holding of the election to fill such office, make out and
file in the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court of the county
in which such candidate resides, or with the clerk of the
Circuit Court for Baltimore City, if such candidate resides in
said city, the statement hereinafter provided.

It is hereby made the duty of the Supervisors of Elec-
tions, within three days after certification to them of any
nomination for any office or place, to certify to the clerk of the
Circuit Court of their county or the clerk of the Circuit Court
of Baltimore City, as the case may be, the names and addresses
of all candidates, including delegates to conventions, nomi-
nated for offices or places within their respective counties, or
the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, together with the
names of the office or place for which each is nominated. The
said clerk of the Circuit Court shall, thereupon, furnish to each
person nominated a blank form upon which to make the state-
ment required by this section.

The said above required statement shall be a full, true and
itemized statement in writing, which statement and duplicate
shall be subscribed and sworn to by such candidate before an
officer authorized to administer oaths, setting forth in detail
all moneys or other valuable thing or things contributed, ex-
pended or promised by him to aid and promote, or in any way
in connection with his nomination or election, or both, as the
case may be, or for other political purposes in connection with
the election of any other person at said election, and all existing
unfulfilled promises or liabilities in that connection remain-
ing uncancelled and in force at the time such statement is
made, whether such expenditures, promises or liabilities were
made or incurred before, during or after such election, and
showing the dates when, the person to whom, and the pur-
poses for which each and all of said sums or valuable things
were paid, expended or promised, or said liabilities incurred.
Such statement shall also set forth that the same is as full
and explicit as the affiant is able to make it.

No person shall be deemed elected to any elective office under
the laws of this 'State, or enter upon the duties thereof, or
receive any salary or emoluments therefrom, until he shall
have filed the statement provided for in this section of this
Article; and no officer authorized by the laws of this State to
issue commissions or certificates of election shall issue a com-
mission or certificate of election to any person claiming to be
elected to any office, until such statement as aforesaid shall
have been made, verified and filed by such person Avith such
officer.